YPL: Our Exciting New Plans
Sep. 6th, 2012 01:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_umbridgeDear boys and girls, I am just so excited to be able to announce the wonderful new plans for the YPL this year. We of course welcome all of our darling new first years, but I also invite those of you in upper years who have not been as previously involved to return. After all, this is the best opportunity to learn skills outside the classroom, and become the best young witches and wizards in service to our glorious Protectorate you can possibly be!
We are going to continue with just a few of the arrangements that Professor Sinistra had already made, but we have so much other material that we simply must cover that we’ll be adding quite a few additional meetings. Full date lists have now been posted in all of your common rooms, but I just want to draw your attention to the highlights.
Our first meeting together will be on September 16th, from 2 to 5 in the afternoon. In that, we’ll be handing out your membership sashes, learning about all the exciting plans for this year, and practising some study skills to help you all get the best start on the coming school year. We’ll also talk about some of the ways that you can demonstrate your commitment, skill, and loyalty to the programme’s aims outside of meetings.
One of these little projects will be to improve our fitness and overall health. We will be beginning to offer regular sessions of running, flying, and other activities several times a week. We’ll discuss more of the details on the 16th, but CCF students, kindly plan to remain until supper, as I expect you will be eager to take the lead on organising these sessions.
Other events this year will include a lecture from some of our Protectorate’s foremost magical engineers, a chance to be of service to village schools, and a truly wonderful writing project and competition to honour the Lord Protector. And for our CCF students, there will be a special activity building on the work of the past summer. We will also have many chances to gather loyally, polish our social and study skills, and temper ourselves to reveal our best and purest potential.
A chance to discuss your hopes for the programme: Now, finally, I want to let you all know that I take my position as the chair of the planning committee most seriously. I wanted to give you all a teensy amount of time to settle in, but beginning on Monday, I will be arranging meetings with all the current CCF members, and with all the counsellors (so for those who are both, we will be able to spend two delightful hours together). I have planned this around your course schedules, and I am sure you will be glad to set any other plans aside just this once.
After those are complete, I will be looking to meet with as many other interested parties - students in other years, faculty, parents, and members of our wonderful larger community - about long-term plans for the programme.
Again, should you or any of your parents have questions, I would be glad to assist. Students, my door is always open to you, and parents, I am readily reachable by owl and journal.
We are going to continue with just a few of the arrangements that Professor Sinistra had already made, but we have so much other material that we simply must cover that we’ll be adding quite a few additional meetings. Full date lists have now been posted in all of your common rooms, but I just want to draw your attention to the highlights.
Our first meeting together will be on September 16th, from 2 to 5 in the afternoon. In that, we’ll be handing out your membership sashes, learning about all the exciting plans for this year, and practising some study skills to help you all get the best start on the coming school year. We’ll also talk about some of the ways that you can demonstrate your commitment, skill, and loyalty to the programme’s aims outside of meetings.
One of these little projects will be to improve our fitness and overall health. We will be beginning to offer regular sessions of running, flying, and other activities several times a week. We’ll discuss more of the details on the 16th, but CCF students, kindly plan to remain until supper, as I expect you will be eager to take the lead on organising these sessions.
Other events this year will include a lecture from some of our Protectorate’s foremost magical engineers, a chance to be of service to village schools, and a truly wonderful writing project and competition to honour the Lord Protector. And for our CCF students, there will be a special activity building on the work of the past summer. We will also have many chances to gather loyally, polish our social and study skills, and temper ourselves to reveal our best and purest potential.
A chance to discuss your hopes for the programme: Now, finally, I want to let you all know that I take my position as the chair of the planning committee most seriously. I wanted to give you all a teensy amount of time to settle in, but beginning on Monday, I will be arranging meetings with all the current CCF members, and with all the counsellors (so for those who are both, we will be able to spend two delightful hours together). I have planned this around your course schedules, and I am sure you will be glad to set any other plans aside just this once.
After those are complete, I will be looking to meet with as many other interested parties - students in other years, faculty, parents, and members of our wonderful larger community - about long-term plans for the programme.
Again, should you or any of your parents have questions, I would be glad to assist. Students, my door is always open to you, and parents, I am readily reachable by owl and journal.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2012-09-06 05:51 pm (UTC)I think I may have just vomited in my mouth a bit.
Sashes? I say.
Though one could never object to more chances to 'gather loyally,' what? On top of all the homework we've already got, of course. It's dashed considerate of her to give us so many opportunities to prove ourselves.
-Justin
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2012-09-06 08:25 pm (UTC)I have a really bad feeling about this. Starting with those meetings she wants us all to have with her, yeah?
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2012-09-06 09:01 pm (UTC)I don't know, nothing she says here seems really awful. Perhaps she won't be so bad?
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2012-09-07 12:23 am (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2012-09-07 12:56 am (UTC)I suppose I'm just trying not to base my judgment of her on things like her off-putting way of talking to students as if they're really not bright, because she hasn't been a teacher before so she might not really know the best way to go about it yet.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2012-09-07 01:12 am (UTC)And I don't like what happened with Professor Siz, but that might not have been her doing either.
She is incredibly annoying, though.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2012-09-07 02:50 am (UTC)He's written again, did you see? Sirius.
-Justin
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2012-09-07 03:01 am (UTC)